About Liberty

Executive Biographies
 

Jerry Lamon Falwell Jr.

Chancellor/President

Jerry Falwell, Jr. was born in Lynchburg, VA on Father’s Day, June 17, 1962. He attended Lynchburg Christian Academy and Liberty University, graduating with a B.A. in religious studies in 1984. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1987. Falwell, Jr. is licensed to practice in all Virginia state courts, U.S. District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Virginia, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.

He married Becki Tilley of Chapel Hill, NC in 1987. They have three children: Jerry Falwell, III (Trey), born 1989, Charles Wesley, born 1993, and Caroline Grace, born 2000, and have lived on a farm in Bedford County, Virginia since 1987.

Jerry Falwell, Jr. has engaged in the private practice of law in Lynchburg since 1987 and has served as General Counsel of Liberty University, Thomas Road Baptist Church, Liberty Broadcasting Network, and Jerry Falwell Ministries since 1988. Jerry and his father worked together closely since 1988 in the management and oversight of the University and all the Falwell ministries. In recent years, he had assumed more and more of the responsibility for the day-to-day management of the organization from his father who, along with the Liberty University Board of Trustees, named him Vice-Chancellor of the University in 2003. He has served on Liberty’s Board of Trustees since 2000.

Falwell, Jr. has also played a key role in the development of the real estate in the vicinity of Liberty University through the recruitment of many national retail and restaurant chains to the area. These developments have greatly enriched the lifestyle of the University community. Falwell, Jr. is a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and was named as the 2006 Business Person of the Year for western Virginia by the Blue Ridge Business Journal.